News
2021-05-18
Opening Up Science in Museums – Experiences and Challenges
Katrin VOHLAND (Natural History Museum, Vienna), 27 May 2021, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
2022-05-24
On the Sustainability of Human Niche Construction
Christian DORNINGER (KLI), 2 June 2022, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
2018-02-02
On the Origins of Complexity, Stability and Variation: A General Model of Development
KLI Colloquium: Roland ZIMM, 15 February, 3.00 pm
2021-10-05
Old ideas for current challenges: Ecological neo-Narodnism and the peasant economy in the 21st century
What is Ecological neo-Narodnism and how does it contribute to solving contemporary social and environmental challenges? Marco P. Vianna Franco explains.
2018-03-12
Off-year Workshop: EASPLS Call for Applications
ISHPSSB Off-year workshop, organized by S. Leonelli & T. Reydon:
5th EASPLS:
Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences and their Philosophy
10–14 September 2018
Student travel grants available!
Deadline: 31 March
2018-01-09
Obligate Endosymbiosis in Ants Reveals Developmental Steps to Major Evolutionary Transitions
KLI Colloquium: 16 January 2018, 3.00 pm
2022-07-08
Now out: Biological Theory’s June 2022 issue!
Volume 17, issue 2 introduces a new collection—Critical Concepts in Biological Theory—with the article: Serial Homology.
2022-04-07
Not over yet: KLI publications on the pandemic
In addition to Diversity Lost to Diversity Regained, KLI fellows covered a range of philosophical, social, and ecological issues.
2018-04-03
Normative Cognition: A Research Roadmap
KLI Colloquium: Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera, 12 April, 3.00 pm
2019-03-25
New Writing-Up Fellow Christian DORNINGER (Leuphana University)
We welcome Writing-Up Fellow Christian DORNINGER who will work at the KLI on his project "Biophysical Human-Nature Disconnections as a Form of Sociocultural Niche Construction" starting on April 1st, 2019.
2017-10-15
New Writing-Up Fellow at the KLI
We welcome Roland Zimm from the University of Helsinki to the KLI.
2017-08-09
New Writing-Up Fellow
We welcome Murillo Pagnotta from the University of St. Andrews to the KLI.
2017-07-15
New Writing-Up Fellow
We welcome Eva Fernandez-Labandera Tejado from the University of the Basque Country to the KLI.
2017-11-07
New volume in the Vienna Series: Vivarium
Vivarium: Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna's Biologische Versuchsanstalt.
A new volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology edited by Gerd Müller was published in October 2017!
2019-03-05
New visitor Javier SUAREZ (University of Barcelona)
We welcome Javier SUAREZ (University of Barcelona) who will work on his project "Stability of Traits as the Kind of Stability that Matters: Holobionts as Units of Selection."
2021-10-01
New thematic issue of Biological Theory: Evolution of Kinship Systems
The September issue of our journal, Biological Theory, is now out.
2018-11-05
New Scientific Director of the KLI
Guido Caniglia took up his position as Scientific Director of the KLI in November 2018.
2024-01-26
New Review Paper: Evolution at the Origins of Life?
“...from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved...” (Darwin 1859)
But what about the time before the ‘so simple’ beginning? Does evolutionary theory apply there? Let's ask Schoenmakers et al.!
2022-11-29
New reading group on Feminist STS at the Vienna Science Studies Lab
The Vienna Science Studies Lab is an intra-institution initiative revived this winter by the KLI, UPSalon UniVie, and the In/human project at CEU. A reading group on Feminist STS is the first event.